Harvey Korman Quotes
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.
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I think always what happens when you ask men questions on the red carpet, it's always based on what projects they're working on, whatever they're about, rather than this, 'Give us little tips for all of us women'... because we're all the same. Questions should just be more individual.
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I wanted success, but I wanted it on my own terms.
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One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.
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I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.
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It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.
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It's tough to work with kids. Kids are animals!
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The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.
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There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.
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Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.
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I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.
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When they raise your hand, Oh my God, the feeling is unbelievable.
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We were kids that didn't have any education. None of our parents were in the music business or even college graduates. We didn't have someone guiding us. We were just uneducated kids from the middle of nowhere that suddenly had a band going around the world.
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But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
